Ordinances-2002-254

CITY OF TIFFIN ORDINANCE NO. 2002 - 254 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1998-219 (ZONING ORDINANCE) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF TIFFIN, IOWA, TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USE AND STRUCTURE TO AREAS ZONED AS M-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL AND TO PROVIDE A DEFINITION OF SEXUALLY-ORIENTED BUSINESSES BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIFFIN IOWA: Section 1. Purpose. To make an amendment to Ordinance No. 1998-219 (Zoning) to provide an additional permitted principal use known as "Sexually-Oriented Businesses" to areas zoned M-2, Heavy Industrial and to provide a definition of same. Section 2. Amendment: City of Tiffin Ordinance No. 1998-219 Section 5.07.J.1. is hereby amended by adding the following thereunder as Paragraph (j): (j) Sexually-Oriented Businesses Section 3. Amendment: City of Tiffin Ordinance No. 1998-219 Section 5.05(B) Definitions: is hereby amended by adding the following thereunder as No. 1A. 1A. Sexually-Oriented Businesses: A "Sexually-Oriented Business" is an establishment, including bookstores, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and arcades where films are shown, or videotapes, magazines, books, or other printed matters are sold, or live performances take place, that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or exposure of "Specified Sexual Activities" or "Specified Anatomical Areas", as defined below. Massage parlors where services are not administered by a licensed practitioner, chiropractor, acupuncturist, therapist, or similar person licensed by the state are also included in this definition. i. Specified Sexual Activities: Patently offensive acts, exhibitions, representations, depictions or descriptions of: 1) human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; 2) fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast; 3) intrusion, however slight, actual or stimulated by an object, any part of an animal's body or any part of a person's body into the genital or anal openings of a person's body; 4) cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, masturbation, bestiality, lewd exhibition of genitals or excretory function, actual or simulated; 5) flagellation, mutilation, or torture, actual or simulated, in a sexual context.